La Vergne, TN carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 35% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, La Vergne, TN shows violent crime at 476.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,834.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 35% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
476.2/100K violent
1834.7/100K property
+35% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for La Vergne, TN
Comparable rate records
La Vergne's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Tennessee cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to La Vergne's 476.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Somerville (477.7), Gatlinburg (479.7), Harriman (480.3), Tracy City (484.1). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
La Vergne reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Tennessee cities
At 476.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, La Vergne ranks 44 of 176 — above 132 of the 175 other Tennessee cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +59.6% against the cohort median of 298.4. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 535.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 476.2 in 2024 (-11.0%). The highest observed value was 535.1 in 2020 and the lowest 380.5 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate La Vergne's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
La Vergne's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 24.7 Census sq mi, La Vergne logged 29.6 property and 7.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
La Vergne's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 922 offenses; mix index 4,114).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (24.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+8.3%
439.7 → 476.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.3%
1958.5 → 1834.7/100K
Property offenses lead La Vergne's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs TN
Property Crime
732
1834.7
2057.9
Larceny-Theft
555
1391.1
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
102
255.7
-
Burglary
75
188
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
190
476.2
601.6
Aggravated Assault
159
398.5
-
Rape
15
37.6
-
Robbery
14
35.1
-
Murder
2
5
-
La Vergne Crime Trend (2020-2024)
La Vergne property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
La Vergne Police Department
Reporting agency for La Vergne NIBRS-participating
La Vergne Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind La Vergne's 922 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Tennessee
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Tennessee cities closest to La Vergne in population. Their populations run from 32,583 to 49,374, against 39,897 here. Or use our
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La Vergne at 476.2/100K violent and 1,834.7/100K property - matched below outside Tennessee (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, La Vergne reported 190 violent crimes and 732 property crimes, for a total of 922 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in La Vergne?
From 2023 to 2024, La Vergne's violent crime rate increased by 8.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.3%.
What is the most common crime in La Vergne?
The most common crime type in La Vergne is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.2% of all reported crimes (555 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: La Vergne figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 La Vergne, TN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.